Matt Gonzalez

Ranked-Choice Voting Makes for a Boring, Undemocratic Political Mess

SFPD Perjury Scandal: 'Police, Lies, and Videotape'

Public Defender Jeff Adachi​The San Francisco Police Department said it would expand its review of alleged officer misconduct in several narcotics arrests after defense attorneys revealed more video footage today they say contradicts sworn statements made by officers in police reports.It was the t ... More >>

Why Tom Ammiano really doesn't want to be mayor

Public Defender Jeff Adachi​The San Francisco Police Department said it would expand its review of alleged officer misconduct in several narcotics arrests after defense attorneys revealed more video footage today they say contradicts sworn statements made by officers in police reports.It was the t ... More >>

Eating Oatmeal on the Muni? Really, Pal? That's the Thing to Do?

What the hell?​In the course of getting slowly from here to there on Muni, we've seen it all: urination, defecation,  confrontation, defenestration, and Matt Gonzalez. But, until now, we'd never seen anyone break out a spoon and a bowl and begin slurping oatmeal on the L-Taraval. To paraphras ... More >>

S.F. Green Party Runs Short on Green, Abandons HQ. But There'll Be a HELL of a Party...

Whatever epithet you wish to toss at the San Francisco Green Party, "negative" doesn't seem to be applicable. The party has announced that it can no longer scratch together the rent for its downtown headquarters -- a sum spokeswoman Erika McDonald believed to be around $1,000 monthly. But inabilit ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

MochipetOur hand picked list of events worth your spare time, for the price of your spare change. Zombie Beach Party (Friday)In San Francisco, Zombies never say die. When they're not "killing" people during flash mobs, they're going to the beach--indoors, of course, because the real sun would damage ... More >>

Smash, the State

MochipetOur hand picked list of events worth your spare time, for the price of your spare change. Zombie Beach Party (Friday)In San Francisco, Zombies never say die. When they're not "killing" people during flash mobs, they're going to the beach--indoors, of course, because the real sun would damage ... More >>

Train Wreck

Major public transit agencies around the country — including San Francisco's — may pay billions for risky deals with bankers.

The Failed Experiment

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

Governor Newsom? Who Knew?

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

SF Weekly Letters

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

SF Weekly Letters

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

SF Weekly Letters

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

Wikipedia Idiots: The Edit Wars of San Francisco

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

SF Weekly Comics Attack Gavin Newsom, Sean Penn, Good Taste!

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

SF Weekly Comics Attack Gavin Newsom, Sean Penn, Good Taste!

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

TV On the Video

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

The End of Our Progress

An ex-mayor chooses between his hometown and poorest Africa. We lose.

Daly Reconsidering Run for Mayor

An ex-mayor chooses between his hometown and poorest Africa. We lose.

Conspiracy! Michael Moore, Gavin Newsom In Global Flip-Flop Ring

An ex-mayor chooses between his hometown and poorest Africa. We lose.

Repertory Film Listings

An ex-mayor chooses between his hometown and poorest Africa. We lose.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Repertory Film Listings

Week of Wednesday, June 21, 2006

The Dance Front

Moving for social change

Look Carefully

Art that goes bump in the night

Noise Pop 2005

The Game

Disappear Here

A nationalistic nightmare

The Ackerman Election

The school board races focus on a superintendent's future and progressive versus downtown political infighting. Kids aren't much mentioned.

Of Asterisks and Small Pols

When the city government tries to play satire police with the press, everyone with a sense of humor -- and a belief in the Constitution -- should be concerned

Sup-Ee-Oh!^TM

Duel for the soul of democracy

Progressive Failure

Why San Francisco supervisors who call themselves progressives should get the boot in November

Follow the Money

Why does Gavin Newsom need a backer like the California Urban Issues Project?

Looking Ahead

Aides insist that Mayor Gavin Newsom is focused on City Hall; his sudden celebrity has spawned speculation about higher office. Much higher.

The Dog Bites Interview: Barista Champion

Latte art: cappuccino that a barista draws a milk design in

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 18, 2004

A Tale Worth Retelling

When an elderly man left the city millions to build apartments for homeless old folks, neighbors tried to block the project. Fortunately, they failed.

Same as the Old Boss?

Why the new mayor should resist political pressure from the new shadow ayatollah of San Francisco politics, real estate mogul Clint Reilly

Letters to the Editor

Week of December 3, 2003

Making Nice

City and state elections officials finally strike a harmonious note in their erratic efforts to roll out IRV

Vapidity Fair

Gavin Newsom's anti-homeless campaign is disgusting, but he's the only mayoral candidate talking substance

Image Is Everything

The economy's in a slump, and so are a lot of S.F. politicians. At least for the pols, Brow Set seems to be part of the answer.

Political Relativity

Stuck in a strange warp of the space-time fabric, our supervisors can't stop tilting against a dot-com development monster that's dead and buried

Best Neighborhood Newspaper

San Francisco Call

Intended Consequences

Our supervisors tilt at a lot of silly windmills. But the city's recognition of Mexican consular IDs may help change national immigration policy for the better.

Dog Bites

Board of Supervisors; Population Growth; Dot-com Layoffs

Dog Bites

Nothing happened last week – and Laurel Wellman tells you all about it

Cothran

Nothing happened last week – and Laurel Wellman tells you all about it